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Posted July 14 2011 â 1:02 PM EDT. Some seriously sad news: Roberts Blossom â the character actor best known for playing the wrongly-accused South Bend Shovel Slayer, a.k.a. âOld Man Marley,â in Home Alone â has passed away at the age of 87. The L.A. Times reports that Blossom died of natural causes in a nursing home in Santa Monica.
Mini Bio (1) Roberts Blossom was a marvelously quirky, talented, and versatile character actor who was especially adept at portraying cantankerous old oddballs. Born in 1924 in New Haven, Connecticutt, Blossom graduated from the prestigious Asheville School in 1941 and attended Harvard. Roberts initially planned on being a therapist, but eventually changed his mind and decided to become an actor instead.